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To guys who think "bitches" is synonymous with "women"

It's degrading. I don't mean degrading to women, that part is accepted to be true, that's why you're doing it in the first place, right? To show how manly you are?

That's why it's degrading. It's degrading to men. Your pathetic, juvenile displays of casual misogyny make men look ridiculous and contemptible. Your clumsy attempts at seizing power and prestige reek of poor self-esteem and sub-par intelligence. Your need to devalue women in a world which already makes them struggle for any semblance of equality is a weakness, not a strength. This is not how a real man behaves. You are the bitch. You are a snivelling, worthless waste of resources that should have ended up as just another stain on your worthless father's underpants.

You are also ruining a perfectly good word. I like telling someone they're acting like a bitch...when they fucking deserve it. Now I run the risk of seeming like just another one of you limpdick morons with mommy issues. And for that, and for all the reasons listed above, I just want to say a big fuck you to all you sons of...uh, women.

Fuck you. Fuck you so much.

“Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.” – Bill Hicks

I don't think I'm like this anymore, though many on this forum might think otherwise.
As I've grown up some. back in the day. I even use myself as an example. reflected on things that happened in the past. I have a better understanding of things now. At least I can admit it now. I have somehow caused this situation by mentioning how I used to act on here. how I've changed. I'm a relatively normal poster now

Burn it up because you do not call ignition ............ Because ignition is born green and then ripens and becomes burn it up, which is yellow, then darkens and becomes a song that has yet to be published and will appear in a collection of b-sides and brown nell'accezione this song is a song from the session discarded of ignition.

There was a minor spat at my house because I don't use the word bitch. His argument, apparently, is that I am perpetuating it as a misogynist word 'because you can call a man a bitch, dude'. I guess it didn't occur to him that when you call a man a bitch, the general implication is that he's being feminine. He also asked if I felt the same way about nigger, 'but white people can be niggers, and not all black people are'. Sure guy, whatever you say.

There was a minor spat at my house because I don't use the word bitch. His argument, apparently, is that I am perpetuating it as a misogynist word 'because you can call a man a bitch, dude'. I guess it didn't occur to him that when you call a man a bitch, the general implication is that he's being feminine. He also asked if I felt the same way about nigger, 'but white people can be niggers, and not all black people are'. Sure guy, whatever you say.

He was drunk, but his reasoning still blows my mind.

PiB, in what context do you find the word bitch acceptable?

Kitchen jokes are a pretty easy way out. All of those Just Add Water jokes should be avoided, if for no other reason, out of respect of the idea of humor. I feel the same way with dead baby jokes. They're not offensive to me, but they're also plain not funny, and never have been.

The "white people can be niggers, too" thing attempts to demonstrate the alleged evolution of the word from a racial slur to a social state or mindset, which kind of makes sense when you consider how the word "gay" is used to mean everything but homosexual. I get what he's saying, but a good rule of thumb is don't say the word nigger and you won't have to justify it with semantics.

One of my biggest pet peeves is sandwich and kitchen jokes. It's never been funny, never will be funny, and at this point it's tired as shit. There is no joke, it's JUST misogyny.

To be fair, there are very select, specific times when it can be funny - it can be used at the right moment and be hilarious. For example, last Friday we were all pretty high and playing hacky sack. I started sarcastically reading into anything possible as sexist, and at one point the people who were playing were all guys except me and one other girl, so one guy said, "Dean, get in here. We need more manpower!" I said "fuck you!" and jokingly stormed off. The friend who'd said it started trying to defend himself - "Manpower is a word! I meant, like, people power!" but my friend, Josh, who's a very close friend and extremely big on equality, said something like, "Nah, we need man power. Women aren't supposed to play sports. Go make me a sandwich." And then he laughed and gave me a hug. Unfortunately, though, this "joke" is almost never used this way and is thus almost never funny or anything but thinly veiled sexism.

Originally Posted by WebDudette

There was a minor spat at my house because I don't use the word bitch. His argument, apparently, is that I am perpetuating it as a misogynist word 'because you can call a man a bitch, dude'. I guess it didn't occur to him that when you call a man a bitch, the general implication is that he's being feminine. He also asked if I felt the same way about nigger, 'but white people can be niggers, and not all black people are'. Sure guy, whatever you say.

He was drunk, but his reasoning still blows my mind.

PiB, in what context do you find the word bitch acceptable?

I pretty much completely agree with you here. I almost never use the word, but every once in a while I'll use it joking/sarcastically with a friend. Never, ever as an actual insult. People who frequently use the word as an insult are bad enough... but when it becomes a replacement for "women", it's just sad. You know boys who refer to women as "bitches" will never be in a healthy relationship because no sane/healthy woman would ever date them. Usually these boys are also Nice Guys, and that's just sad. The word itself, though, is inherently sexist. If you call a woman a bitch, it means she's being aggressive. Nobody ever calls a man a bitch because he's acting aggressive... if you call a man a bitch, it means he's acting "like a woman". Using it for both men and women is sexist. I prefer to use the word "asshole" if someone is being aggressive, and if someone is being a passive weakling, I call them a wuss or a child/baby. There are plenty of other words I can use to describe someone's negative behavior without having to use a sexist word.